Forging Ploughshares

Paul Axton preaches: If salvation is a body united, sin is the resistant core, the alienating power, which as Paul depicts is the turning of self against itself. In the same way we can understand salvation as a harmonious body, we can understand the suffering of sin and even a damnable existence as people turned against one another. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

The premiere historian of the Restoration Movement, Richard Hughes, discusses his research with Paul Axton, tracing the core myth of white supremacy which stands behind the myth of America as a Christian Nation. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: The spiritual gifts may be misunderstood as miraculous magic apart from a grounding in true spirituality. An examination of I Corinthians 12. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton and Jason Rodenbeck continue their conversation on living in the tension of postliberalism which requires people to entrust themselves to God. Part 2 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton and Jason Rodenbeck differentiate postliberalism and liberalism. Part 1 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton begins a new series answering basic theological questions, beginning with original sin. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this sermon, Paul Axton sorts out the biblical picture from the various traditions and reactions that arose around the Lord's Supper. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hayden Hagerman and Paul Axton discuss how Postliberalism intercedes into modern thought- as a disruption on the order of idolatry undone and absorbed by the strange new world of the Bible. Part 2 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: The reversal of sin is through the death of Christ because sin is an orientation to death which his death addresses. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton and Hayden Hagerman discuss how postliberalism goes beyond the liberal/fundamentalist controversy as well as beyond postmodernism and such thinkers as Quine and Davidson. Part 1 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: Male/female relations are a correlate of the Trinitarian relationship between the Father and the Son. Our success in gendered relationship is interwoven with our understanding of who God is. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

In this lecture, Paul Axton poses the possibility that nothingness, absence, negation, - is itself demonic. The recognition that the idol is nothing is not to disarm the demonic but to recognize the strength the idol exercises. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: I Corinthians 10 contrasts demons and glory - and equates simply suspending the law, naming the idol as nothing, as inadequate and destructive. It is the sort of destructiveness unleashed by Marxism and deconstruction which as a half-truth is more destructive than outright paganism. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hayden Hagerman and Paul Axton discuss the key figures in postliberalism and the development of this alternative to modernist liberal and conservative theology. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Jason Rodenbeck and Paul Axton conclude their discussion of the 2018 film Vice and share their reflections on a the peaceable Kingdom's response to the pursuit of political power and our contemporary political situation. Part 2 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches: The organizing principle of this world is idolatrous in that it would sacrifice people for principle, the few (the poor and weak) for the many (the strong). Paul pictures this as collusion with demons and call for anarchism - love against the organizing power of this world. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Jason Rodenbeck and Paul Axton discuss the 2018 film Vice and share their reflections on a the peaceable Kingdom's response to the pursuit of political power and our contemporary political situation. Part 1 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hayden Hagerman and Paul Axton continue to lay out the significance of Wittgenstein and show how this correlates with part of an Augustinian understanding which correlates with Karl Barth and serves as the basis for Post-Liberalism. Part 2 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Paul Axton preaches on I Corinthians 9, where the apostle Paul's ideal of authority and leadership is contrasted with that of the Corinthians and contemporary notions of leadership. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound

Hayden Hagerman and Paul Axton discuss Wittgenstein's and Augustine's understanding of language and how this can result in two different theological understandings. Part 1 of 2. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work. Music: Bensound